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I was preparing for my trad wedding in December, in Delta state and needed a photographer / videographer who’s based in Delta to minimise logistics. The photographer I initially wanted to use for wasn’t available. I asked one of my make up artistes and she suggested Owen Imagery. I checked his Instagram page and his pictures didn’t look bad. Because I had limited time, I called him up and finalised plans.

He insisted that I had to pay 70% two weeks before and the balance before the wedding so I said that was fine as it seemed to be standard for most vendors I used. The only difference with OWEN IMAGERY is that he is a fraud and a highly unprofessional person who claims to be a photographer / videographer. So let me just summarise my experience:

1) On the day of the wedding, he sent a representative, he didn’t come by himself which was not cool. The guy he sent came late. They spelt my name wrongly on the wedding banner (this was part of my payment) so I ended up not using it. The guy was so grumpy that everyone at the event noticed.

2) It’s been two months since my event and I have received not one pic or video from my wedding. When I complained one month after my event. He said Dec is a busy time for them and he doesn’t understand why I’m upset. Meanwhile a far more popular photographer / videographer shot my white wedding in Lagos. Not only did I get pictures and the montague the next day, I have since received full photos and videos from my wedding that held more than a week after my trad

3) I woke up one morning, perhaps a month after my trad wedding to a horrible picture from my trad that he had put on Instagram (meanwhile all this time I had still not received anything, after complaining). I asked him to take it down and his response was “I can’t. It has already started attracting likes”. This is someone who cares more about his social media image / likes than providing good service to a client who had paid. Till today, it’s still on his page

4) I’ve followed up several times. He has told me “next week” all the times I’ve asked for an update since Jan. And the week passes and I hear nothing from him. I call his phone. He picks up and claims not to hear me and doesn’t call back. I send whatsapp messages and he doesn’t respond so I decided to change my approach

5) I posted a comment on his Instagram page today asking for my pics as his page is now filled with posts of events that held weeks and months after mine. He immediately blocked me instead of addressing it.

6) Shortly after he blocked me, I also sent him a message on whatsapp telling him blocking me won’t solve the problem and his response was rude, (see picture in gallery) showing absolutely no remorse for not delivering the service he was paid for

Overall terrible service. I’ve never seen anyone so rude and unprofessional. It’s one thing to not deliver a service you’ve been paid for. But to now have the worst nonchalant attitude like he was doing me a favor in the first place is unacceptable.

In summary, Zero over 10 for service. I would’ve said -5 if that’s a possible rating on here. I would never recommend him to anyone.

All I want right now is my refund. Since he is not interested in sending my pictures or videos.

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If there was a rating less than zero I would rate owen as a negative 10. Its been 6 months since I got married and owen has not delivered my wedding pictures nor videos for both my traditional and white wedding, after paying him in full. Owen is an unprofessional, fraudulent and extremely rude photographer. May he be punished for messing with my big day and I hope he never succeeds In his career.

Am writing to bring this upvagain, my sis wedding that held on the 16 & 17th of Dec. , 2016.we are yet to receive anything sigbificant from Owen_imagery who was contracted to do both the videography and photography.he sent one of his quacks assistant to drop a CD of about 30mins duration to my mum which is totally scratched by the way he has blocked my mums no from reaching him and about 10 page paper book no soft copies no proper hard copies ,please people come to my aid.

So 3 months later, I think it’s Safe to say @owen_imagery is indeed a fraud – someone who takes your money but does not deliver the service that was paid for or at least up to the standards he said he would deliver. So RUN from this guy!

The social media blast clearly affected him as he gave me a fake apology in a bid to make me take my posts down. He said he would send everything the next day (photobook, 2 DVDs of the video coverage, a printed photo enlargement and a CD with the pics taken). I also asked him to send the soft copies and he said okay. A part of me started to feel sorry for him after his apology but I didn’t take my instagram post down because I wanted to see if his apology was genuine but it wasn’t clearly based on his attitude days later – the ignoring continued and he didnt sent the package until two weeks after he said he would, which was almost 3 months after the wedding.

We had agreed for him to send it to an office in Ikoyi / Lagos Island. Only for him to tell me that he can only send it to MILE 12. I’m like i dont understand. Knowing I wasn’t dealing with a sensible person, I didn’t complain. I asked where else besides Mile 12 he could deliver to, he said Jibowu bus park so I said okay, I will have to send someone to pick up.

When I got the package, Photobook was poorly done (I mean I wasnt expecting any better considering I still hadnt / have not seen the soft copy pics till today) The book had only 80 pics, low-quality and were the worst selection ever. He didn’t send my video / 2 DVDs, he didn’t send me the electronic pics. The enlargement was very small, a bad picture and really a joke.

After receiving this, i humbly and politely told him to send all the soft copy pics edited or not so I can at least select what I want (because I probably liked about 10 pics out of 80 and hopefully if i saw the entire thing, i would find more nice ones and print a book myself). He ignored me and clearly doesn’t plan to send it so I have closed my mind and head to him for ever.

Luckily the trad wedding was not grand so I won’t lose sleep if I don’t ever see the pics / video. My white wedding memories more than suffice. I’m just doing this so that other potential clients / even existing clients can learn from this and stay away.

A message to @owen_imagery, your attitude will not get you far so all I feel for you is pity cause you’re clearly not educated and have zero dignity / integrity. I would say good luck but even that can’t help you.

A Bad and unprofessional event planner leads to a wack, quack kinda photographer. My wedding date was December 30th, and 31st, 2016. This charlatan had me pay him 70% weeks before wedding, both tradition and white, and then balance on wedding day. His nonchalant attitude from the outset made me feel I was dealing with the wrong guy. But I didn’t follow my guts because planner assured me of his professionalism and all, not knowing she was bad too. And besides am based in Abuja and hardly found any good photographer in Warri. My Abuja photographers were charging really high cos of logistics. So I felt this guy was a fair deal. I and my other half went thru his posts on ig and were okay with his jobs posted on there. Wedding day was fast approaching and this fraudulent, rude and arrogant boy hardly responded to my calls to make plans for our big day. He was just acting really weird. At a point we were really scared we had been scammed even though the fake decorator kept saying he would disappoint us. Long story cut short, this son of a bitch didn’t show up on the trad day, he just sent 2 guys who were amateurs. Owen was unreachable. He never informed abt his absence. Then came white weddin which was d next day, the bastard showed up at the event in short chinos pant as if a houseboy. Contrary to our agreement, we had no banners for display, no coverage of convoy, no interviews at the hotel, no wedding shoots, no projectors to display our pre-wedding shoot we had in Abuja. and no though coverage of event. Only a few shots at the reception. This dude was a total mess and disappointment. My wife kept complaining at the reception cos she noticed they werent covering the event. Till date we have not seen our wedding coverage. He keeps giving us stories and we keep seeing other most recent weddings on his ig. He has been extremely nonchalant about our job and worst yet he’s so rude and arrogant. I think 10 weeks’ patience is enough. I have given owen benefits of the doubt. I have had misunderstandings with my beloved queen all bcos of owen. Of course I would not expect my wife to be happy abt not having seen our wedding pics and videos that we paid so much for. I have let owen rain on our parade enough. Now he’s guna really regret messing with the wrong person. I will make sure he regrets hw he treated all these other clients that complained. Unfortunately I have to give him at least 1 star rating even though he deserves none.
I will update here soonest.

Firstly he was untimely&unapologetic for both the engagement party and wedding proper which held on the 16&&17th of DEC. 2016. He came after the bride was fully dressed and no crew showed up for the groom(groom got to church late waiting for Owen who was still saying he was on his way @9am and guess his arrogant mouth said thank God am here now I have 6w3ddings today so these boys are my guys they will handle it) needless to say that we were expecting 4 crew and we saw only 2 and an extra lady whom seems to be a friend to one of the guys on the 17th helping them hold the lighting shade. Hmn I could go on but as we all know the movie already ,he has been playing same script over and over but owen-iweh godspower this is d end of it all.I pray Gods power empower you like Samson oooo .

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